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Mikel Arteta owes a thank you to Marcelo Bielsa for the role that Ben White is now able to play for Arsenal. Mikel Arteta reinvented how Ben White operates tactically within the Arsenal team on Sunday. Usually, the right-back follows a fairly orthodox set of instructions for his role, and is tasked with getting forward up the touchline to support and combine with Bukayo Saka on the flanks. White often makes an overlapping run on the outside of the winger, putting himself into a good crossing position. The Arsenal left-back, regularly being Oleksandr Zinchenko, tends to provide an inverted opti…